Coping with work-family conflict

Are we working longer hours and spending more time at work than ever before? Or is it just that our lives seem so much busier these days?

At times of work-family conflict, men are apparently more likely to treat work as a given and home life as changeable, while women will try to change work to accommodate family demands.

This is the opinion of Professor Michael O'Driscoll from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. The professor has recently returned home after delivering a presentation in Perth for the Australian Psychological Society all about how we cope with work-family issues. He is talking to Warren Boland.